Peter Shor revolutionized public-key infrastructure (PKI) using concepts that trace back to 4,000-year-old Babylonian ...
The quipu is a traditional Andean counting device that uses colored strings and knots in lieu of paper and numbers.
Apollonius of Perga, who lived from 240 BC to c. 190 BC, was a brilliant ancient Greek mathematician known for his work on ...
More than memorializing a math mistake, stone tablets show just how advanced the Babylonians were in their time.
Education too is being affected by technology. Revolutionary as the whole process of introducing AI in education may have ...
History has long celebrated its ancient world pioneers, yet many great deeds of overlooked figures have faded with their names.
BEIJING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- An asteroid has been named after Liu Hui, a mathematician who lived during China's Wei and Jin dynasties (220-420), to honor both Liu and the Chinese mathematics he ...
BEIJING -- An asteroid has been named after Liu Hui, a mathematician who lived during China's Wei and Jin dynasties (220-420), to honor both Liu and the Chinese mathematics he represented.
New research shows that three sites spread along an approximately 620-mile portion of today's Denali Fault were once a smaller united geologic feature indicative of the final joining of two land ...